Lamborghini Develops "Self-Healing" Electric Concept Vehicle

Lamborghini is aiming to deliver the “sports car of the future,” and in collaboration with MIT, they’ve developed their new concept vehicle, the “Terzo Millennio.”

This “electric super sports car” includes many of the usual bells and whistles like regenerative braking, and to maximize the car’s kinetic energy, the company wants to create a new supercapacitor that bests conventional batteries in terms of energy density.

Lamborghini also wants new materials able to “increase the availability of electric energy using structural electric energy storing composites as a rechargeable battery” – the carbon fiber structure would act as one big energy storage system, presumably increasing the range and performance.

The Terzo’s most intriguing feature is the idea of “self-healing,” where internal monitoring systems would diagnose small cracks in its carbon fiber structure, and micro-channels filled with healing chemistries would, in effect, “fix” the damage. We’ll all seen small chips spiderweb outwards, but this new self-healing system would prevent that.

And while the closest I’ll probably get to it is my laptop’s screen, the Terzo Millennio seems like a fascinating demonstration of futuristic vehicle technology that could eventually become standard. Minus the Lamborghini’s gargantuan price tag, of course.